Rubin Learning in a Crusader City

Intellectual Activity and Intercultural Exchanges in Acre, 1191–1291
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-316-95333-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 110, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series

Did the Crusades trigger significant intellectual activity? To what extent and in what ways did the Latin residents of the Crusader States acquire knowledge from Muslims and Eastern Christians? And how were the Crusader states influenced by the intellectual developments which characterized the West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? This book is the first to examine these questions systematically using the complete body of evidence from one major urban centre: Acre. This reveals that Acre contained a significant number of people who engaged in learned activities, as well as the existence of study centres housed within the city. This volume also seeks to reconstruct the discourse that flowed across four major fields of learning: language and translation, jurisprudence, the study of Islam, and theological exchanges with Eastern Christians. The result is an unprecedentedly rich portrait of a hitherto neglected intellectual centre on the Eastern shores of the medieval Mediterranean.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubin, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Intellectual activity in Acre: socio-cultural characteristics; 2. Acre's Christian and Jewish centres of teaching and learning; 3. Language and translation; 4. Acre as a meeting point of juridical traditions; 5. The study of Islam; 6. Theological exchanges with oriental Christians; Conclusion; Appendix: the relation of the used texts to Acre; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Rubin, Jonathan
Jonathan Rubin teaches in the department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar Ilan University. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of the Latin East.